Pedro Martinez Quotes

My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Real
  • May
  • Fashion

• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Country
  • Place
  • Changes

• Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Money
  • Done
  • Man

• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Say
  • Other

• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Want
  • Garden
  • I Can

• Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Parenting

• Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Artist

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Children
  • Heart

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• I never said I was a genius.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Never
  • Said
  • Genius

• Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.

  

  Christy Turlington

• My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Movie

• My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Opportunity
  • Brother